Letter 152 — CLII
Original French
Paris, le 4 janvier 1810, jeudi soir.
Hortense, que j’ai vue cette après-midi, m’a donné, mon amie, de tes nouvelles. J’espère que tu auras été voir aujourd’hui tes plantes, la journée ayant été belle. Je ne suis sorti qu’un instant à trois heures, pour tirer quelques lièvres. Adieu, mon amie, dors bien.
Musean translation
Machine-assisted Musean English translated from the French of the 172 Napoleon letters selected from Tancrède Martel, ed., Œuvres littéraires de Napoléon Bonaparte, tome 1 (Albert Savine, Paris, 1888). French Wikisource contributors supplied the scan-backed transcription: https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Livre:Bonaparte_-_Œuvres_littéraires,_tome_1,_1888.djvu (page histories credit contributors). The transcription is CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/; this adapted text and translations are shared under the same license. Extraction removes markup and editorial notes; selected transcription repairs were checked against print images.
Paris, Thursday evening, January 4, 1810.
Hortense, whom I saw this afternoon, gave me news of you, my friend. I hope you went to see your plants today, since it was a fine day. I went out only for a moment at three o'clock to shoot a few hares. Farewell, my friend, sleep well.
Plain English translation
Independent machine-assisted Plain English translation from the 1888 Martel French edition, not a historical English translation. French Wikisource contributors supplied the scan-backed transcription: https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Livre:Bonaparte_-_Œuvres_littéraires,_tome_1,_1888.djvu (page histories credit contributors). The adapted transcription and translation are shared under CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Extraction removes markup and editorial notes and makes documented transcription repairs. French-source model review is not human specialist certification or a complete scan collation.
Paris, Thursday evening, January 4, 1810.
My dear, I saw Hortense this afternoon and she gave me news of you. The day was fine, so I hope you went to see your plants. I went out only briefly, at three o'clock, to shoot a few hares. Goodbye, my dear; sleep well.
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